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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the ARC Discovery grant DP150101663 to S. Shabala and R. Hedrich and funding provided by King Saud University. N. Bazihizina is a recipient of the Marie Curie Fellowship (grant 700001). Metabolite analyses were conducted at Metabolomics Australia (School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Australia), a NCRIS initiative under Bioplatforms Australia Pty Ltd. The authors thank Mrs Himasha Mendis of Metabolomics Australia for sample extraction, GC-MS untargeted data acquisition and analysis. We also thank Dr Tracey Cuin for her technical assistance in preparing this MS.